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The Conservative People's Party of Estonia ((エストニア語:Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond), EKRE) is a national conservative political party in Estonia. It was founded in March 2012 when the agrarian centrist party People's Union of Estonia and the nationalist pressure group Estonian Patriotic Movement merged. Current chairman of the party is Mart Helme, former Estonian ambassador to Russia. In the parliamentary election of 2015, the party secured 8.1% of the votes and entered the Riigikogu with 7 seats. At the same time it had around 7600 members, being the fourth largest Estonian party by membership size.〔(Äriregistri teabesüsteem )〕 The party sees the survival of Estonian ethnicity as its main struggle, and many of its policies are directed at supporting young Estonian families, reducing emigration of Estonians and fighting immigration from outside of the European Union. It is also overtly eurosceptic and wishes to implement Swiss style direct democracy. ==Background== Modern Estonian nationalism dates back to the Singing Revolution that led to the end of Soviet occupation in Estonia. EKRE has drawn former members of the Estonian National Independence Party〔(EKRE kandidaat Kalju Mätik, 171 )〕 as well as the Central Union of Estonian Nationalists that was active in the 1990s. While nationalism played a small part in Estonian politics since the mid-1990s, it started to become more relevant in 2006 with the tensions around the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn. The Estonian Patriotic Movement was founded the same year. The movement aimed to unite a variety of Estonian nationalist groups at the time. From 2008, the movement was led by Martin Helme, son of Mart Helme. Mart Helme had formerly been a member of the People's Union of Estonia but was forced to leave the party in 2004 because of his opposition to the relocation of Monument of Lihula and the suppression of protests.〔(Delfi: Rahvaliit viskas Mart Helme välja )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Conservative People's Party of Estonia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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